Hey, thanks man! Yeah Kenji sent a link to that the other day... definitely awesome shit... I really dig on a lot of eastern european art, especially the childrens book/fairy tale/illustration-y stuff....

I don't mind at all. I take my pencil drawing into photoshop and enhance the lines until they are nice and dark, and I make them a separate layer and erase all of the white, so that I am left with a transparent layer with linework, underneath of which i establish my base colors and shadows. Once I am satisfied with that layer, I create a new layer that is ovetop of the drawing layer and paint in just my highlights and details. I call it my 3-layer painting method... though I often will have more than 3 layers, but the principle is still the same.

Plus, I am a drawer, and not a painter, so I let the drawing guide my paintings. I have to have a really strong drawing before I can paint anything, it's just the way i work.

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I am a professional freelance concept artist and illustrator. I am the creator of the World of Gateway, and the writer/illustrator of the upcoming Kickstarter-funded book: "Gateway - The Book of Wizards"